Articles by Ron Whitehead

Ron’s PRAYER cd nominated for Spoken Word Grammy!! Excited to announce that I received word from Gill Scott Holland and sonaBLAST! Records this morning that the new PRAYER cd has been nominated for a Spoken Word Grammy! PRAYER is a 14-track recording featuring piano by Harry Pickens, violin by Aaron […]

by Ron Whitehead “Give me liberty or give me death.” –Patrick Henry “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition […]

art by Joey Feldman Today I visited Muhammad Ali’s childhood home and The Ali Center to pay my respects to the poet, boxer, non-violent spiritual warrior, truth teller, hero. Daddy and my brother Brad and I listened to every Cassius Clay fight on the AM Radio. I watched every Muhammad Ali fight on TV. I followed […]

I was there when Muhammad Ali and His Holiness the Dalai Lama met for the first time which was during the 2003 dedication of the Chamtse Ling Temple in Bloomington, Indiana. The interfaith temple is to promote world peace and harmony. The temple is the dream of Thubten Jigme Norbu […]

Ron Whitehead- “We’re Not Gonna Take it Anymore, Matt Bevin!” w/ The Storm Generation Band This music video was filmed in support of Kentucky residents against the fiscal policies of Matt Bevin including slashing funding for social programs in healthcare and welfare while approving an $18 million tax break to […]

deep in the arizona desert lucid dreaming atop a red rock mountain seeing 100 miles in all directions for the first time since i was 17 and leaving my old kentucky farm home i saw scene after scene episode after episode of my early life and for the first […]

I walk on I will not bow down I walk on I refuse I walk on I never give up I walk on I face and embrace and learn from my fears and my demons I walk on I face and embrace and learn from my failures and my deaths […]

by Ron Whitehead i’ve always loved true tales of the supernatural. i’ve always wandered through old graveyards. there was a time when i would take dates to graveyards, after a dance or a movie. i’ve had many many supernatural experiences. and not all of them were drug inspired. i’ll […]

by Ron Whitehead in the middle of a dark and stormy october 31st night i convinced a young lady to drive me to the graveyard i had selected the tombstone a week earlier during a cloudy windy late afternoon walk reverend roscoe rankin january 19, 1809 – october 7, 1849 […]

Here’s GT Poetry Editor Ron Whitehead’s poem “merging” which just won The Dirty River Press Award from the Kentucky State Poetry Society: at 4:17am june 10th 2015 i’m 64 merging onto interstate 65 jinn and i taking angie to the airport her mother died yesterday she’s flying to florida […]